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The birth cradle of humanity is one of the most diverse and vast continents on the planet. With 54 countries on the continent, the cultures are as varied as the landscape. Poverty and famine are still common, with new challenges emerging as states industrialise.

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Violence and killing has resumed across Burundi, threatening to shatter the fragile peace brokered after the civil-war ended in 2006. With the government determined to shun outside assistance, can Burundi pull itself back from the brink?

Across the region:

MONUSCO peacekeepers of the North Kivu brigade on patrol in a street of Goma 4 January 2014. Photo: MONUSCO/North Kivu Brigade. Wikicommons

More than 1152 women are raped every day in the Congo. Almost half a million experience sexual violence every year, and there is little hope of these figures abating as violence scours the eastern DRC.

Anti-ivory campaign. Source: WildAid

Cumulative vertebrate species recorded as extinct or extinct in the wild by the IUCN (2012). Source: The Conversation

In the Congo, the United Nations is undergoing a change to its fundamental structure. Since the establishment of the International Criminal Court, it is now changing its posture from simply reactive into a proactive force on the world.